Adobe 29180155 User Guide - Page 316

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4.0 311 User Guide 16-bit grayscale A high-bit image mode that can contain thousands of shades of gray. Photoshop Elements supports flattened 16-bit images (it does not support layers in 16-bit images). skewing Deviation of the content of an image from a vertical or horizontal axis. Skewing can be a camera artifact or an intentionally applied effect. slices Portions of an image in Photoshop that divide the image into functional areas. Slices are not supported in Photoshop Elements. smoothing A technique for averaging the values of neighboring pixels to reduce contrast and create a soft, blurry effect. spot channels A Photoshop channel that contains a spot color such as a Pantone color. Photoshop Elements does not support spot channels. sRGB A calibrated RGB color space now in use as a standard on the web. Most computer monitors can display only the colors in the sRGB color space. stroke (1) An outline around an image or part of an image created with the Stroke command or with a drawing, painting, or selection tool. (2) The characteristics of the lines created with one of the painting or drawing tools, especially brushes. subtractive primaries Cyan, magenta, and yellow. In theory, when pigments of these three colors are combined in equal quantities, the result is black. Printers combine these colors in various proportions to represent all printable colors. The additive primaries are used to combine colors of light, whereas the subtractive primaries are used to combine colors of ink. swatches Preset colors that you can choose from in the Color Swatches palette. The maximum number of color swatches that you can load in Photoshop Elements: 8190. T Targa (TGA) format A file format that is compatible with systems using the Truevision video board. target channels Selected channels in the Channels palette of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Channels palette. target colors Colors you specify for highlights, neutral grays, and shadows when you correct a photo. target layer The selected layer in the Layers palette. target path The selected path in the Paths palette of Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't have a Paths palette. tate-chuu-yoko A block of horizontal type that is laid out in a vertical line. Also called kuminoji or renmoji. temperature In regard to color, the degree of heat (in degrees Kelvin) that an object would have to absorb before it glowed in a certain color. Each color is associated with a color temperature, as are various kinds of light. See also black body. text layer A layer that contains vector-based text. thumbnail A small, low-resolution representation of an image. The program displays thumbnails of the photos you are working on to help you find them and edit them. TIFF Tagged Image File Format. A digital image format widely used for images that are to be printed or published. TIFF images can be compressed losslessly. tint A variation of a color produced by adding white, thus decreasing saturation and increasing lightness.